DCHP-3

fall debt

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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credit extended to hunters and trappers in the form of supplies to be paid for out of the coming year's catch.

See: debt

Quotations

1952
Some hunters would get their "fall debt" or a portion of it, as early as August, transporting the heavier goods to their trapping grounds and returning to the post in September for the balance of their debt.